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we like ryan gosling as an actor, but he gets miscast as a tough guy.  looks as if they is trying to make him tough in bladerunner 2049.  mistake.  am knowing many people like drive. it were an okie dokie movie and had the kinda 60s/70s rough edge to it we miss.  but gosling as a tough guy?  he woulda' spent half his life trapped in a locker with his butt cheeks taped together if he had gone to Gromnir's high school.  

 

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Props to it that it knows enough to imply the chestburster (spineburster?) and the xenomorph. However, the cover song for this gave me a Predators vibe for some reason, as in it turns out to be a passable movie but doesn't come close to holding a candle to the original. Though of course since this is just another movie in a long-running franchise that's a bit much to ask, but that one audiodrama "Out of the Shadows" filled me with confidence that there's still some awe and wonder to be found with the series.

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Kind of got the sense that this implied that Deckard was a Replicant (who can somehow live a full human lifespan).

Why couldn't had Harrison Ford died in 2016 and not make this movie?

I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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Might need to re-watch the original:

 

dunno.  as much as am liking the cast, this strikes us a movie not in need o' a sequel.  in fact, a sequel with mostly intact returning cast is a bit at odds with the theme o' the first movie.  after all, as the first flick were relating the stories o' a collection o' young and self-destructive heroin addicts. one expects middle-age to have wrecked terrible carnage 'pon the lot o' em.  not great fodder for a sequel w/o necessarily diminishing the first movie. 

 

the trailer does makes us wanna listen to the soundtrack. we have the original soundtrack on a cd in a box, in a closet, behind and/or beneath other large boxes. hmmmm. perhaps am gonna simple get a youtube playlist to indulge nostalgia.

 

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

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Kind of got the sense that this implied that Deckard was a Replicant (who can somehow live a full human lifespan).

For me the Blade Runner is not the character I wish to know about, it's his prey and antagonist that i'm interested in, and somehow I doubt anyone can match Mr Hauer.

 

Edit: I wish someone would re-release/remaster (not desecrate) the video game with Clovis and company.

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Kind of got the sense that this implied that Deckard was a Replicant (who can somehow live a full human lifespan).

I want this to be good. I want it sooo much. I guess like what the Starwars fanboys wanted for the Force Awakens, except **** Starwars, comparatively speaking. 

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Just occured to me, I don't think we put up the superbowl trailers, so here are two -

 

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

 

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2:

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Just occured to me, I don't think we put up the superbowl trailers, so here are two -

 

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

 

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2:

I liked the Guardians trailer, the Pirates I can't really care at all for. I did like the Stranger Things and Logan ones from the ones I recall.

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I liked the Guardians trailer, the Pirates I can't really care at all for. I did like the Stranger Things and Logan ones from the ones I recall.

 

Pirates is a weird one; I'm well disposed to the franchise (I even liked part 4) but this trailer feels...too familiar to what they've done before?

 

Anyhow Logan Superbowl spot -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovuk6JV3haI

 

A Cure for Wellness -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GArHKfJOXM

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I liked the Guardians trailer, the Pirates I can't really care at all for. I did like the Stranger Things and Logan ones from the ones I recall.

 

Pirates is a weird one; I'm well disposed to the franchise (I even liked part 4) but this trailer feels...too familiar to what they've done before?

 

 

Ah, I was already at odds with the franchise from the very first film and it's only gone worse from there from what I've seen and heard. Can't say I'm enthusiastic at all about a new one, but then again it's not me the trailers (and the film, I guess) have to convince.

 

What always makes me enthusiastic about a new Pirates film is a new Kermodian rant about it. :grin:

 

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I liked the first Pirates well enough, but the second and third are true guilty pleasures for me. They have a kind of longest saturday morning cartoon ever feel - a kind of sprawling chaotic saga about gods and monsters that I can't help but respect because of how completely and entirely it commits to its own insanity - they're never good but at least they never played it safe.

 

In comparison, the fourth tried to dial it down and came out seeming much more dull and tired and I'm not confident this one's not going to play it even more safe based on looking EXACTLY like the stuff that came before.

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Fourth film was based (however loosely) on a book (that pre-existed the PIRATES films) so I expected it to feel a bit different.  But it was a nice change of pace from 2-3 which was essentially one incredibly overlong, really silly, swashbuckling film.

 

Fifth film seems like trying to recapture the 1st film a bit.  Not sure if that's good or bad.

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This is the trailer thread not the synopsis thread.

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Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara and Natalie Portman all starring in a new film by Terrence Malick, with some extra Iggy Pop and Patti Smith for good measure... Why does this feel like it's a cynical cashgrab aimed to pander to *me* specifically? Either way they got me interested, I'll watch. :p

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